Rabbit Hill (Puffin Modern Classics)
by:
Robert Lawson (author)
It has been a while since Folks lived in the Big House, and an even longer time has passed since there has been a garden at the House. All the animals of the Hill are very excited about the new Folks moving in, and they wonder how things are going to change. It’s only a matter of time before the...
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It has been a while since Folks lived in the Big House, and an even longer time has passed since there has been a garden at the House. All the animals of the Hill are very excited about the new Folks moving in, and they wonder how things are going to change. It’s only a matter of time before the animals of the Hill find out just who is moving in, and they may be a little bit surprised when they do.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142407967 (0142407968)
Publish date: February 15th 2007
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
[Still reading children's books. Why we have them around is covered in this review. Short version: children's reading program, public schools.] You may immediately recognize - if not the name Robert Lawson - then the style of illustration (images below). The really popular book of Lawson's (when k...
A story about the little animals that live on the Hill. The House on the Hill hasn't had any people living on it and is falling apart. The animals find out that new people are coming and the book follows them as they wonder about the new owners and how they will treat the animals of the Hill. It was...
Re-read, first time in many years. It continues to interest me that many of my deeply held principles are explicit in books I read as a child. Here, the garden many times larger than needed by the folks eating from it is encountered. No traps, no poison, enough to share. I know that it was reinforce...
“New Folks coming…new Folks coming into the Big House!” That’s the cry of every Animal on Rabbit Hill. The Animals are filled with excitement…and fear. Will the new people bring a new prosperity to the house and the hill? Or will they bring danger?Not to give away too much, but the charm of the stor...
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